Net so they can corralled and then taken out of this pond. And then moved over to the back to the Crystal River. What we know right now theres at least one more maam and calf combo possibly another manatee in addition to those two. This rescue effort has going on since early this morning theyve stuck in here since hurricane hermine they were washed over bridge that separates this pond on golf course that a canal that connects to the Crystal River were at the plantation on Crystal River. This massive team involving volunteer an experts throughout region. This really does take a lot of work. We think there might be about 17 manatees in there, at least six the biggest ones weigh 1500 pounds. And all of these animals have literally be carried out on a stretcher placed into a truck. And then taken down the road and released back into Crystal River down a boat ramp. That. Carrying these manatees takes about 20 people. Especially when were talking about the a largest of these 1500 pounds. Tho
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Infectious disease specialist dr. Doug holt. There was dean usf health, hes a research, in obgyn. I have to tell you resounding message that was here, this morning was that we know so little about this virus. Were learning more every single day. Its very fluid. But theres so many concerns about what its doing, what it may do, they even likened it to the poe leo outbreak we saw in middle of last century. And when they were talking about this particular virus, saying about some of the microcephaly cases and some of the care for the pregnant women, they say we are already seeing healthcare costs rise. Because theres testing involved. Ultrasound. Sport mechanisms that have to be in place for families to support that. In addition to that, of course we have to remember the mosquito. 80s is one that is front and center right now. This morning, at a mosquito lab right here on usfs campus representative kathy castor, and and i talked to both of them this morning but you will hear dr. David joll
Disorganized really in early stages, it actually looks fairly impressive. Youre actually seeing pretty good out flow from this. Youre seeing some pretty strong convection with this as well. Now its moving pretty quickly right now to the west. At about stwun miles an hour. Heres Hurricane Hunter flight. In fact they are still out there at this hour. You can see there have been focussing right in on this area right here. Thats exactly where the center of this is. You notice, were looking an all the really deep convections still sittin on northern side. The center of this doesnt have the strong convection around it. Sop it going to take time to really intensify. You need all of big thunderstorms to start to get consolidate around that center. So it looks like its going to take a little time. It will be slow and strengthening over next several days. But, the forecast does call for that strengthening. In fact, this is expected to strengthen into at least a category 2 hurricane at this Degre
Starting to make its way into cream southern pinellas. Weve had some wind gusts reports near the skyway on that southern end gusting already up to 40 miles finance hour. Thats obviously being caused by some of the squalls which are working there way along the coastline. Now you look some rainfall totals, this is basically since last night. You can see throughout Hillsborough County, one, 1. 7, 1. 8 nearly two inches of rain in fact into western Hillsborough County. But then along the coastline, this is Pinellas County. And you can rainfall estimates right near the coastline and weve got several more days to be dealing with this kind of weather. Heres the view, the enhanced satellite view action you can see this system is certainly been producing some very vigorous storms through overnight hours. Still has been dealing with some wind sheer. But wind sheer has been in that moderate level which i say lewd for center to basically kind of get underneath. Some of thunderstorm activity. Now,